I am correcting an error in the flag of La Ceja del Tambo
(Antioquia), that is of the arrangement of the colours. The
shield of the municipality and the descriptions of both are
located in <www.laceja.gov.co>.
Shield (Coat of Arms): By Resolution 027 of September 3rd, 1956,
the Municipal Council officially adopted the Coat of Arms
proposed by mister Abelardo Botero Botero, as special distinction
of the municipality. The shield is in oval shape, quartered and
crowned by palms, cornucopias, stars as external adornments.
Considered in the Resolution, shape, colors, tinctures,
partitions and external symbols represent the historical past of
the Municipality, its present and its physical, intelectual and
religious progress. In the first quarter (dexter) there is an
image of Our Lady of Carmen, patron of the Cejeno [people from La
Ceja], and symbol of their religiosity. In the second quarter
(sinister) it can be seen a mountain peek that enclosures a
valley shaped as a semicircular elbrow, completed with a town and
its church, vegetation, a river and a road that goes though it.
In the third quarter (lower dexter), there is prominent an ox
seen on the side, loaded by bundled bales, cut in the middle by
the oval's border; besides, the farming tools represented by a
plow, an axe and a hoe in saltire, that represents laboriousness
of the Cejeno man. In the fourth quarter (lower sinester) over a
purple filed, Hacienda El Puesto, the place where Gregorio
Gutierrez Gonzales was born, a palm tree proper and a parchment
with two works by the poet: "Aures" and "Canto al
Maiz". In the lower motto the words: God, Home, Work.
Flag: By Resolution 044 of December 2nd, 1989, the honourable
Municipal Council adopted as emblem the flag, composed by three
horizontal bands of the same size with the following meaning:
Yellow: Independece, wealth, souveragnity, justice, firmness and
eloquence. Red: life, blood of our laborious farmers, endurace,
fight, push, honour, courage, generocity and victory. Green:
productivit, hope, aboundance, freedom, faith, friendship,
service, respect and the fierceness of valleys and mountains.Jairo Alonso Méndez Méndez (translated by Carlos
Thompson), 3 January 2004